Paper counting and delivering mechanism.



S. HALVORSEN. PAPER COUNTING AND DELIVERING MECHANiSM.

Patented July 3, 1917.

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SEVERIN HALVORSEN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIG-NOR TO THE NEWSPAPER STUFFING- MACHINES COMPANY, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, A CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON.

PAPER. COUNTING AND DELIVERINGiMECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917.

Application filed June 7, 1916. Serial No. 102,352.

To all whom itmag concern:

Be it known that I, SEVERIN HALVORSEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Seattle, county of King, State of W'ashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Counting and Delivering Mechanisms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention-relates to the delivering and counting mechanism of apparatus for handling papers. It has been especially designed for use with newspaper stufling machines, although it may be used in connection with other machines.

The object of my invention is to produce a device which will receive the papers issuing from another machine and which will stack or dispose these papers in an orderly manner and so that known numbers may be quickly secured therefrom Without havin to count them.

The special features which I believe to be novel and upon which I desire a patent will be particularly described hereinafter and then defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention in the type of construction which I now most prefer.

Figure 1 is a side View of my device, showing papers thereon.

Fig. 2 a plan view of the device.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows in detail the feed actuating mechanism.

The papers are supposed to be delivered over the guide 10, to and between rollers or pulleys 11, which are mounted on shafts 12, 13. these shafts being connected, as by gears 14-, to turn together and to thus eject the paper. Guide tapes 17 running on pulleys 15.

. 11, serve to assist in the proper entering of the papers between the pulleys 11.

A receiving surface for the papers is formed by tapes 2, which run on pulleys 20 and 22, carried by shafts 21 and 23 at opposite ends of a frame 24. A frame 34 carries shafts 3 and 33' at opposite ends, on which are pulleys 30 and 32 over which pass tapes 31. Shaft 3 is journaled on the machine frame 1 and forms a pivot axis upon. which the frame may swing. The rollers 32 and the outer ends of the tapes 31, rest upon the papers P to hold them down and also to assist in the feeding movement. Beneath this, wheels or rollers 25 are placed to support the papers and frame 34.

The shaft 21 has a sprocket wheel4 and shaft 3 has a sprocket wheel 40 thereon. These are turned in like direction by a sprocket chain 4 which engages both said wheels and also passes over an idler 41 carried by a stud shaft 42.

The shaft 21 is the driver of this combination. On one end it has two ratchet wheels 5 and 6,'of which wheel 5 has evenly spaced teeth of usual construction, while 6 has but a single tooth. As shown, wheel 5 has thir-' teen teeth. These numbers may be varied, but wheel 5 should have teeth which are multiples of those on 6, this multiple being one greater than the number of ,papers which it is desired to group together on the delivery table.

A'shaft 7 mounted in any convenient location, is given an oscillating movement. It has two arms 70 and 71, connected by links 72 and 73 with arms 75 and 74, journaled on shaft 21. These last arms carry pawls 76 and 75, adapted to respectively engage the teeth. of wheels 5 and 6. i

The throw of arm 74 is enough to cause a single-tooth movement of wheel 5. By reason of different proportioning of arms, the movement of arm 75 is enough to produce a feed equal to two of the teeth on wheel 5,. It therefore results that the shaft 21 will, at each oscillation of shaft 7, be given a movement equal to one tooth space of wheel 5, the feed pawl of arm 75 having no turning effect until wheel 6 reaches the point where its pawl will engage the single tooth, 6O thereon, when both wheels will be given a movement equal to two tooth spaces of wheel 5.

As the receiving tapes 2 are actuated by this it results that the papers are piled thereon, twelve in number, in the mechanism shown, with an even spacing between their edges followed by another serles of twelve The outer end of the frame 34-resting on I the papers and carrying the tapes 31, con,-

stitute positive feed means acting on the top of the pile of papers, to insure their even advance.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A delivery mechanism for papers and the like comprising two sets of belts, one acting as receiving belts and the other extending over the receiving belts and with their outer ends yieldingly supported to rest upon the receiving belts, means for giving both belts a series of uniform actuating movements followed by a movement of noticeably greater amount.

2. A delivery mechanism for papers and the like comprising receiving belts a frame hin ed above and projecting over the receiving elts, said frame having pulleys and belts thereon resting upon the papers carried by the receiving belts, means for giving said belts a series of uniform advancing movements alternating with a single movement noticeably greater in amount.

3. A delivery and counting mechanism for papers comprising a set of receiving tapes, a frame hinged above one end of the receiving tapes and extending thereover, tapes mounted on said frame and at the outer end of the frame resting on the papers upon the receiving tapes, means for intermittently driving both sets of tapes, and means for giving said tapes an increased driving impulse at regular intervals.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 1st day of June, 1916.

SEVERIN HALVORSEN. 

